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TROLLEY FINDER.

No. 583,868. Patented June 1, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE EDWIN JOHNSON, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO HENRY SCHAEFER, OF SAME PLACE.

' TROLLEY-FINDER SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.583,868, dated June 1, 1897.

Application filed August 21, 1896. Serial No. 603,498. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE EDWIN J OHN- SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and Stateof California, have invented a certain new and useful Trolley-Finder, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in trolley-replacers and the objectof my invention is to produce a device by which a trolley can be placedin contact with a trolley-wire without going to the trouble of gettingthe trolley-wheel exactly in line with the trolleywire, thus renderingit possible to place a trolley incontact with a trolley-wire while thecar upon which the trolley is placed is in rapid motion, or make it aneasy matter to properly replace a trolley when it is moved from one endof the car to the other, as is the case where the direction in which thecar is going is reversed. I attain these objects by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a sideelevation of a trolley-support embodying my invention and illustratingthe same in the position it would occupy when it is desired to use itfor replacing a trolley upon atrolley-wire. Fig. II is a rear elevationof an ordinary trolley-support with my improved trolley-replacerattached therea similar view to Fig. II, exceptingthat in this view thecord used for operating the trolley-pole, both independent and inconjunction with the replacer, is shown.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents a trolley- Wire; B, an ordinarytrolley-support; O, a trolley-pole where it entersthe sleeveconstituting a part of the frame of the support B, and D my completeinvention, which is formed of the arms E E, the frame F, the pins G G,the cord H, and the handle I, the said parts being connected together asfollows: The frame F is attached to the trolleysupport by the shaft J,upon which it is pivoted in such manner that it can rotate upon saidshaft, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. I. The object of pivoting thesaid frame in this manner is to provide a means whereby it can be thrownout of the position. shown in Fig. I and into a position in which thearms E E will stand longitudinally in line with the trolley-support whenthe arms E E come in contact with cross-wires or other obstructions inthe trolley-line, thus preventing any damage being done to either thetrolley-line or the trolley-support or any of its connections by themcoming in contact with cross-wires or other obstructions.

The frame F is constructed of one piece and provided with the slots K K,into which the arms E E are pivoted by the pins G G. The part of thearms which are located within the slots K K are made circular ordisk-shaped, as shown in Figs. II and III, and extending around theperiphery of the said disk-shaped parts of the arms is rove the cords LL, with the ends thereof fastened to the arms in such manner that bypulling the said cords downward the arms are rotated upon the pins G G,causing them to assume the position, as shown in Figs. I, II, and III,and by releasing the tension upon said cords the said arms assume theposition shown in dotted lines in Figs. II and III.

The cords L L terminate in one cord II, which is fastened to the handleI in such manner that by pulling the said handle downward the arms areoperated, as specified, without moving the trolley-support.

The cord (shown by letter M) is attached to the trolley-support in theusual manner of trolley-cords and is provided so that it can be attachedto a trolley-car to preventthe trolleypole from flying upward when thetrolleywheel leaves the wire. At the same time by attaching this cord tothe car and leaving the cord attached to the handle loose upon the cordM, as shown in Fig. III, it is obvious that the arms E E are neverraised to the position I ICC pulling downward upon the handle I, andwhen the arms are elevated should they come in contact with anobstruction such as crosswires or other obstructions they can turnbackward out of the way and thus obviate breaking them or any of thetrolley-wire connections.

Now, having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a trolley-replacer, the combination of the frame F, the arms E E,the pins G G, the

cords L L, the cord H and the handle I, the whole assembled together inthe manner and for the purpose as specified.

2. The combination with a trolley-wheel and its support, of a dependingframe pivoted upon the axle of the trolley-wheel, two arms pivoted tothe said frame and arranged to drop by gravity away from each other in aplane transverse to the trolley-wire, and means for raising said arms tocause them to straddle the trolley-Wire, substantially as described.

3. The combination with atrolleyavheel, and its support, of a dependingframe pivoted upon the axle of the trolley-wheel, two arms curved andpivoted at their lower ends to said frame to drop by gravity away fromeach other in aplane transverse to the trolley-wire, cords arranged onthe curved lower ends of the pivoted arms, and a handle attached to thefree ends of said cords, whereby the arms may be swung up toward eachother to straddle the trolley-wire, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a trolley-wheel support, a bifurcated swingingframe pivoted at its upper ends to the end of said support, atrolley-wheel journaled between said upper ends of the frame, two armsprovided at their lower ends with curved portions pivoted to the lowerend of said frame and arranged to drop by gravity away from each otherin a plane transverse to the trolley-wire, cords arranged on saidcurvedportions of the pivoted arms,a tubular handle connected to saidcords at their free ends, and a cord attached to the trolley-wheelsupport and passing through said handle, substantially as described.

GEORGE EDXVIN JOHNSON.

Vitnesses:

O. P. XVIDAMAN, T. S. XVADSWORTH.

